Selali Fiamanya1, Lucía Cipolla2, Mónica Prieto2, John Stelling3. 1. Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom. Electronic address: s.fiamanya@gmail.com. 2. Servicio Bacteriología Especial, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Infecciosas 'Dr. C. G. Malbrán', Av Velez Sarsfield 563, 1281 Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina. 3. Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Molecular genetics has risen in both output and affordability to become the gold standard in diagnosis, however it is not yet available for most routine clinical microbiology due to cost and the level of skill it requires. Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation - time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) approaches may be useful in bridging the gap between low-resolution phenotypic methods and bulky genotypic methods in the goal of epidemiological source-typing of microbes. Burkholderia has been shown to be identifiable at the subspecies level using MALDI-TOF MS. There have not yet been studies assessing the ability of MALDI-TOF MS to source-type Burkholderia contaminans isolates into epidemiologically relevant outbreak clusters. METHODS: 55 well-characterised B. contaminans isolates were used to create a panel for analysis of MALDI-TOF MS biomarker peaks and their relation to outbreak strains, location, source, patient, diagnosis and isolate genetics. Unsupervised clustering was performed and classification models were generated using biostatistical analysis software. RESULTS: B. contaminans spectra derived from MALDI-TOF MS were of sufficiently high resolution to identify 100% of isolates. Unsupervised clustering methods showed poor evidence of spectra clustering by all characteristics measured. Classification algorithms were discriminatory, with Genetic Algorithm models showing 100% recognition capability for all outbreaks, the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typeability model, and 96.63% recognition for the location model. A consistent peak at m/z of approximately 6943 was identified in all non-typeable strains but in none of the typeable strains. CONCLUSIONS: MALDI-TOF MS successfully discriminates B. contaminans isolates into clonal, epidemiological clusters, and can recognise isolates non-typeable by PFGE. Further work should investigate this capability, and include peptide studies and genomic sequencing to identify individual proteins or genes responsible for this non-typeablity, particularly at the peak weight identified.
BACKGROUND: Molecular genetics has risen in both output and affordability to become the gold standard in diagnosis, however it is not yet available for most routine clinical microbiology due to cost and the level of skill it requires. Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation - time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) approaches may be useful in bridging the gap between low-resolution phenotypic methods and bulky genotypic methods in the goal of epidemiological source-typing of microbes. Burkholderia has been shown to be identifiable at the subspecies level using MALDI-TOF MS. There have not yet been studies assessing the ability of MALDI-TOF MS to source-type Burkholderia contaminans isolates into epidemiologically relevant outbreak clusters. METHODS: 55 well-characterised B. contaminans isolates were used to create a panel for analysis of MALDI-TOF MS biomarker peaks and their relation to outbreak strains, location, source, patient, diagnosis and isolate genetics. Unsupervised clustering was performed and classification models were generated using biostatistical analysis software. RESULTS: B. contaminans spectra derived from MALDI-TOF MS were of sufficiently high resolution to identify 100% of isolates. Unsupervised clustering methods showed poor evidence of spectra clustering by all characteristics measured. Classification algorithms were discriminatory, with Genetic Algorithm models showing 100% recognition capability for all outbreaks, the pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) typeability model, and 96.63% recognition for the location model. A consistent peak at m/z of approximately 6943 was identified in all non-typeable strains but in none of the typeable strains. CONCLUSIONS: MALDI-TOF MS successfully discriminates B. contaminans isolates into clonal, epidemiological clusters, and can recognise isolates non-typeable by PFGE. Further work should investigate this capability, and include peptide studies and genomic sequencing to identify individual proteins or genes responsible for this non-typeablity, particularly at the peak weight identified.
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